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Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel for Microsoft 365 on Windows, Mac, Android, and Windows Mobile support inserting and editing scalable vector graphics (.SVG) files in your documents, presentations, email messages, and workbooks.

On iOS you can edit SVG images that you've already inserted on another platform.

Tip:  SVG is an open standard that was established in 1999.

Insert an SVG image

You insert an SVG file the same way you insert other types of image files:

  1. Select Insert > Pictures > This Device.

  2. Navigate to the .svg file you want to insert, then select it and choose Insert.

Insert an icon

The library of icons in Office apps consists of SVG images that you can insert in an Office document and then customize:

  1. Select Insert > Icons.

  2. Browse or search with keywords for an image. Then select it and choose Insert.

    For more information on how to add an SVG image to your file see Insert icons in Microsoft Office

Customize an SVG image

After an SVG image is placed in your document, you can customize its appearance:

  • Resize the image without any loss of image quality

  • Change the fill color

  • Add or change the outline

  • Apply a preset style that includes both a fill color and an outline

  • Apply special effects, such as a shadow, reflection, or glow

All the above options are available on the Graphics Format tab of the ribbon when an image is selected on the canvas:

On the Graphics Format tab, there are several color, style, and effect options you can apply to an image.

Additional image customizations

As with any shape in an Office document, you can rotate it and use alignment options for more precise placement. The Size options on the Graphics Format tab of the ribbon let you crop the image or specify precise dimensions for it: 

Options on the Graphics Format tab help you customize your images.

Convert an SVG image to an Office shape

Many SVG files (including Office icons) are single-color images. But you can disassemble an SVG file and customize individual parts of it by using the Convert to Shape option:

  1. On the document canvas, right-click the image.

  2. Select an individual piece of the image, then use the options on the Shape Format tab of the ribbon to modify it as you want.

  3. Repeat step 2 for each piece of the image you want to modify.

  4. (PowerPoint and Excel only) When you're done customizing the pieces, use Ctrl+click to select all of them. Then on the Shape Format tab on the ribbon, select Group > Group. This action joins the pieces together again as one object in case you subsequently need to move or resize the image as a whole.

Here's a short video where Doug shows you how it's done.

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See Also

Insert pictures

Insert icons

Animate pictures, clip art, text, and other objects

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